The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1902, Page 16

xs _ ‘robbed the Concord (N. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to 6 Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mali Matter. Park Row, New York. THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1902, « pias Ba VOLUME 43...... WERENT eat oeae NO. ii B,O8!. THE CURSE OF THE EVIL EYE. ‘ his wife's lawyer, proceeded to write him a threatening letter Wednesday in which there are these words of dire Victor M. Osborne, having quarrelled with import: T invoke on your head 10,000 curses of jettatura, on you and yours. Jettatura is the evi! eye, in the power Italians and the rural English and some Ameri it would seem, still believe. , the signal for a stampede. They thought that Pope Pius [X., the best-loved man In Italy, was af- “fileted by 1t and when he passed by men made the cus- tomary sign with doubled-in thumb to protect tl ‘against the malign influence, And all because t eye chanced to rest for a moment on a child at a win- _dow just before the child fell from its nurse's arms to the street below. The evii-eye superstition is probably as old Kind. Ancient Greece had long been familiar w “Aristotle and Plutarch mention it. ehild away from the gaze of a stranger. The Weesing the fatal influence is thought to blight every- In Theophile Gautler's romance “The Jettatura” the hero ruins every one he loves by his "thing on which it rests. @lance and finally tears out his eyes in frenzy. ‘The proper procedure for the lawyer who eursed by Mr. Osborne is to begin to dwindle into physical nothingness or to fall ill of a lingering mortal In order to avert this fate he @uust make use of one or all of the following charms isease or to go insane. _ /agalast the evil influence: Wrtend his right hand toward his enemy with the thumb @foseed under the forefinger. ‘Watch for his enemy's footprints and drive a nall in one me them. The man with the evil eye will thereupon go lame amd die and if his right heel is examined after pate of the nail will be found in it. . Make a wax image of his enemy and melt It or stick ft all of pins. As it melts the man it represents will dle. Greek g@irts thirty centuries ago made use of this device to get even witty a: recreant lover. Paint an eye on porcelain and wear tt as an ‘amulet to| % “Ywounteract the influence of the evil eye } \ Carry the horn of an animal or a plece of horn cut into A The halt moons on your horse's | { {Rarness had théir origin as a charm in the name of the moon crescent. ‘the shape of godidens to avert evil. é ‘Thus fortified the lawyer may snap his fingers at the ‘ouree called down on him. And to quote from Vatrus, an old writer on this topic, “Let no man laugh (things ‘a8 old wive's tales, and let no one cast ridicule on them because the reason of them passes our knowl- ‘efige.” No, indeed! Not as long as we patronize for- vtune-tellers and necromancers and palmists and Chines> vizards to learn how stocks are going next week or to get some further dotails about the brunette with a large fortune who ts to marry u THE DECAYED BURGLAR. Where are the great burglars and other master Where are the Agamemnons thieves of former years? of the profession? “Billy” Pinkerton says that only low-grade crooks with us now; the geniuses are all ‘gone. According to this famous thief catcher: | Professional crime among Intelligent men 1s largely ex-| ‘tinct. We have no great burglars or forgers in t Btates to-day. Tho safeguards that have been against burglars practically drove all the old class out of * existence. The tellers’ windows ure all screened In, Elworthy, writing of the; superstition only ten years ago, says that in Naples the | « ‘appearance of a person supposed to possess the evil eye | of which cans also, | for years hemselyves: he Pope's 28 man- ith It, for} ¢ It became widely prevalent in the various countries of Southern Europe. Im many European villages a mother will snatch her eye pos- has been death the at these Hi ARK! Tis THE VorE OF THE JAMY/TOR TEAR H4 COM PLAIN, we have he Untted invented electrical ovices and steel vaults have made bank burglaries {mpossibl @nd wine burglars and safe robbers have gane out of busl-| Nese, To-day everything of that kind ts clumstly done, | It Is certainly dificult to give the names of con- | + temporery burglars of the first rank off-hand. Twenty | years ago any reference to bank burglary brought up the | ‘mames of criminals of national fame. Such names as | “those of The Hopes, “Jimmy” and “Johnny,” father “Jimmy the star performer in the Manhattan | and son, | Savings! -Bank job. There were six in the gang, but the Hopes “dominated it The elder was the old man for couns?l | The spoils ,and& the son the young man for action. ‘amounted to $2,747,000 and the deed ts historic in the annals of crime. ., Or Langdon Moore, who, with “Harr out with $300,000 in an old carpet sack. Or George Mason, who, with old Jimmy Hops, robbed the First National at Wilmington, Del., of , Mason also had a hand in the robbery of the tional Bank of Quincy, 111, of $200,000 and a Milwau hank of $90,000. @. Or John Larney, “Mollie Matches,” bank burg'ar and Pickpocket, a slender young Achilles In woman's clothes, but an ornament to the profession. Larney was reput d to have made $160,000 in crime. These names ‘were household words in the under world and young crooks just started on a career of | + ,erime looked up to them with the respect that genius | inspires. In these degenerate times who is there to com- pare with them? Who is there among confidence men] ® “to compare with Ross Raymond, to-day a Hindoo rajin,! 2 to-morrow a Russian grand duke, or with Or mer, son-in-law of a Senator? Is Vosburgh wi! celebrity in their class? JEKYLL-HYDE LIVES. who was a respectable Lust glar by night pring Jel Dumerous cases of double lift Ss Man by day i-Hyde memories. HAR the tims of his arvest he wore ac Bree years became lavieh tn his expenditu pnd consorted with low company. penton the rich resident Poight, . ‘se suit of mi Bo0dy with vuter shirt, Around his neck in place of a! Howard, | H.) National Bank and walked kin- | rin th The exploits of George Dickinson, the Philadelphian | still fresh in the memo:ry— those of Sichrieber, the Elizabethport bank clerk; Al- ‘vord, the bank teller with his $700,000 defalcation Death and the oer young men implicated in the Bos- schieter crime, sid the more recent one of Stillman, An interesting feature of the Dick!nson case ts that | © @8 with Stevenson's hero, he dressed the part. At th? | <Pffice he eure a neat busine: ft. In the evening a Vidrees suit -=a when on burglary bent a costume to fit (eoliar he haw ticd « red haudkerchlet and for his head veovering bo wore a cap pulled down over his ears, ~~ Among elmilar manifestations of this moral insan'ty ,of only prriodical occurrence Mercler records an in- iting one In a rich miserly man of gool fem!ly and wa that habits who for a period of three weeks every drank to When tho sndulgence was over he returned to h's normal B/W thie category may be put the singular of Spring- be the perpetrator af geveral Vr Gov DEAD) P| Loaps oF = "Tyme TO (catcH THAT (eam srs mats ee ,THERES ME OLD FRM BUT Wasn'T \ THE ONE AgouT THE THREE EGGS A coRKER NO OFFENSE. “How “Well, if dat have no kick co! friend of mine.” —re NO MAN'S SLAVE, girl who would rather re- thin be the slave of any here's main. si “But ien’t she afrafd of being lone- some?" “On, no, She is too busy on her great book, ‘How to Manage a Husband.’ '— Detroit Free Presa. $ 500-006 8-0H: /SEND Down DE ASHES’ ONCE YET SGeseeessooesoorwerrsceresonss tonees: erry Mac Gwins Have Fun with the Janitor. What They Did Is Here Shown by Artist Powers. ! UP There Hobson and Dewey send down the ashes and make the janitor imagine that) Twins, who have taken Willfe, the monk, into thelr joy-manufacturing firm, neve: Mount Pelee fs doing a new erupticn stunt in the dumb-watter shaft. Janitor gets the cinders out of his eyes and ears he doesn't do a thing to Pa. Mr. Hotfoot Commuter Late at the Office Again. When the The | felt happler in thelr lives. Artist Kahles Shows How It Happened. YES; KEMEMBER THAT (CREAT Times ) ih Ho!Ho!Ho! : Lanruttr rum St087 | wasn Ary LR NEARLY DIED LADGHIN] ABOUT THE LODGE HOLY SMOKE THERE GOES MY TRAINS, (GATE Aan BY THE GREAT HOKEY, ‘ Chimmie—Hello, Mickey, what cher goin’ to get fer Christmas? , Mickey—I ain't sure, but I heard de ol’ man say sumptin’ about automobules or sumptin’ like dat. SNE HOOSIER HEROES, “Some of the: marked Jinks, ‘deserve much praise." r indeed," replied Jenks; "somo of them act truly Christian parts in be- ing willing to take all the blame them- selves.""—Indanapolis Bun, self-made me if a BOBO® BBOVOO-DD2OO1DO6 9 EGOOC9OOOO69HDEG106040009009000 0999 > |of a racing information bureau, she THE =EVENING= The Man Higher Up. He Says Jerome Is Right for Once, 66 | SEE Jerome is handing out a few hot wollops to the thieves and de teetives on Broadway,” remarked the cigar-store man. “Well.” said the Man Higher Up, “Jerome could take all the bouquets I aver threw at him and they wouldn't make a cushion for the »| nose bridge of his eyeglasses, but for this once he has made a spiel that will stand the acid test.” “Do yon really belleve that Broadway Is a thieves’ parade?” asked the clgar-store man, “IT wouldn't say that,” cautiously amended the Man Higher Up. “There are lots of honest people in the white illumination section of Broadway day and night, but a man who knows can spot a few crooks to every block between Twenty-sixth street and Forty-second at any time after the crooks’ breakfast hour, which is 2 o'clock {n the afternoon, after the racing seagon ends, He can spot:plenty of detectives, too, but there don’t seem to be any feud on between the detectives and the crooks, stand around hotel lobbies looking for tips. He's mistaken about that, They stand around the hotel lobbies looking for clues.” “Clues to what?" inquired the cligar-store man. “Clues to grafts,” said the Man Higher Up. “A Tenderloin detective can smell a graft further than you could smell a fire in a cold storage warehouse. Say, next to being a successful con. man or the proprietor I'd like to be a Tenderloin detective. “Talk about a sporting life. Why, compared to a Tenderloin detective, a wine agent lives in a sailors’ boarding-house. “In the first place, a Tenderloin detective don't have to settle for any- thing, wet or dry. The booze emporiums are as free to him as the North | River is to a man hankering for suicide. And he don't have to stand up ithe bar boy. For his to saunter to the cashier's desk and tear up the >| checks. When he wants to feed his tace it 1s only for him to choose the After awhile he gets so he lobster palace he wants to brace for a handout. | thinks he's the proprietor of Broadway, and the suggestion of real work ;| makes his feet so cold that the frost oozes through his shoes. “And at night he covers his silk underwear with an open-face sult and butts Intotsome hot sport from out of town that wants to go around and ‘look at the pictures and things. Then it's to a cab and the quiet side streets >| as long as the hot sport is able to make a wine bin of himself. When the whole party gets epiflicated the Tenderloin sleuth steers them to a Turkish bath and gets ‘his hooks onto his commission petore the ink is dry on the. % | register.” “Don't they ever do any work?" asked the cigar store man. “That's their work,” replied the Man Higher Up. “Sometimes they’re told to go out and get a crook. They write the crook a postal card to meet newspapers have stories about how those brave Centra! Office men, Getit and Keepit, after a long chase and a desperate struggle succeeded in captur~ ing the desperate criminal Mustache Mike, who is suspected of having robbed a candy store in San Diego. “As for the crooks, well, this is the town for crooks. Come up- town with me some night and I'll take you into the crowded bar rooms and show you crooks by the bale, second-story men, phony paper “Jerome says that the Tenderloin detectives don’t do a thing put © them two or three days later at a certain corner, and the next day the i i pOooO4 2 oe »|layers, all-round con. men, ? lost in it.” man. knows, You can't tell about these pickpockets, gamblers, wire-tapping workers—all lines. The town fs so big that they're “Do you think Commissioner Partridge knows about all those crooks being in town, and the way his detectives act?” inquired the cigar-store “Maybe he does,” eaid ‘the Man Higher Up. England knows; maybe the Czar of Russia knows; maybe Mayor Low short-card men, gentlemen Maybe the King of things.” Any Toy Shop Can Give You the Address, To the Editor of The Evening World: Is there any place where broken dolls can be pul logether? Mrs. M. ROWE. Nixon Wan Born at Leesburg, Va. April 7, 1861, To the Editor of The Evening World: What was the place and date of the birth of Lewis Nixon, the ex-Tammany leader? HENRY D. HARFIELD. “Peekaboo” Wan Scanian’s Song. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘A says that W. J. Scanlan sang the “Peekaboo” song. B says that J. K. Emmet sang it. Which Is right? GEO, D, Crystal and China, To the Editor of The Evening World: * What are the fifteenth and twentieth anniversaries of a wedding? A. A. Hot Shot for “English.” To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘N reply to a letter asking how to dress like an Dnglishman and signed “English” I woukl Ike to advise the writer of said article if he wishes ‘his dress” that he go to England, where he belongs. can dress Is/good enough for the United States, AMERICAN, It Means “Please Reply.” To the Editor of The Evening World: fs ‘What Is the meaning of "R. 8. V. P., which Js sometimes printed on wedding Invitations? 5 SAMUEL FASTDNBURG. It stands for the French words “Repondes, s'il vous plait; meaning “Please reply." Saya Streets Are Not Clean. To the Rditor of The Evening World: [ ference to the artisie by Woodbury entitiea “How. I Keen the Streets Clean," I would ask how many streets in New York City—weat and east sides— are there that are properly swept (not to speak of being clean)? Woodbury would do well to take Jessons from the methods of the well-known Mite George ©, Waring. jr, He probably refers to ritth swell sections which don’t need so much cleaning. DISGUSTED. it Depends Entircly on Hin Height. ‘To the Kaltor of The Rrening World: What Js the average welght of a boy Just eighteen? H, M’CABE, Jewelry Rarred, To the Kaltor of The Evening World: ‘A says It is not proper, to give a young Indy a ring for a birthday or Christmas present unless the young man {a en- Letters, Queries, Knswers Many Questions on All Sorts of Subjects An- swered for Evening World Readers by Experts. enue, Madison avenue and other jngiand ha yy A girl is not supposed to accept Jew- elry from a man unless she Is engaged to him. There In No Universal Hollday, To the Eultor of The Evening World: Is there 4 universal national holiday, in the United States? How many capl+ tals has the State of Rhode Islapd at the present time? ANXIOUS, There is no universal nation.. holly day, Rhode Island has but one capltaly Providence. Marcon! Messages Travel Through Alr. Ts the Editor of Tho Evening World: Do Marconi wireless messages travel through the alr, water or earth? G. H. More Abont (‘IKate,!? ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: [ response to Mabel Turner's request National to hear from others regarding her fdea that all girls by the name of Kate are hot-tempered, I beg to disagree with her, inasmuch as I find them very sweet and amiable. I would aay that I think all girls bearing the name of Miny nile are hot-tempered and usually have red halr, Those bearing the name of Martha are very gentle and meek.’ Would also like to hear from othera, JACOB NEWMAN, Evening Schools. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: : ‘Where is the nearest public evening” school tomy honfe? 8. SLOSBERG, _ No, 418 Hast Sixtieth street. ‘There 1s one at No, 200 Hast Seventy fifth street and ono at Fitty-secom@ street, near Eighth avenue. White Tie Should Be W. To the Editor of The Bren! as What 1s the birthp! ®rohman? When wearing « full dress sult Is It correct to wear a white tle with a white vest? ALEX G. Charles Frohman was born at Sam- dusky, O., 128, A white tle should Be | worn with a white waistcoat in evening: dress. =i Yen, He In an American Citinems To the Biltor of The Evening World: Two American parents travelling (1m child born when abroad. Is this child an American citizen an@; entitled to vA President of the United.” States according to the Conatitution of the United States? T. J. Vy 4 ‘Tho child is an American citisen and eligible to the Presidency, “Nelle Bly” In Still Living, To the Piltor of The Evening Work Pee 4 Is Nejlie Bly still alive? 4 , CHARLES GEORGR. “James” in'German In (Jakob?